Cahaba Valley (Ordovician of the United States)

Where: Jefferson County, Alabama (33.1° N, 86.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 80.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Odenville Formation, Blackhillsian (474.9 - 470.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original aragonite

Primary reference: E. O. Ulrich, A. F. Foerste, A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1944. Ozarkian and Canadian cephalopods, longicones and summary. Geological Society of America Special Paper 58:1-226 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101761: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Dissidocerida - Troedssonellidae
Buttsoceras adamsi Butts 1926
several specimens